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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75575-75597
Title:: Althorp Papers. Vols. cclxxv-ccxcvii. Letters to Lady Spencer from her son, George John, 2nd Earl Spencer, 1764-1814. Twenty-three volumes. Unbound. 240 x 185 mm. average size.
Scope & Content:: George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer: Letters to his mother: 1764-1814.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1764-1814
Extent:: 23 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75598-75600
Title:: Althorp Papers. Vols. ccxcviii-ccc. Letters to Lady Spencer from her daughter-in-law, Lavinia, wife of George John, 2nd Earl Spencer, with a few drafts from Lady Spencer to her; 1780-1813. Three volumes. Unbound. 235 x 185 mm. average size.
Scope & Content:: Lavinia Spencer, née Bingham; wife of George John, 2nd Earl Spencer: Letters to her mother-in-law, Lady Spencer: 1780-1813.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1780-1813
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75601-75604
Title:: Althorp Papers. Vols. ccci-ccciv. Letters to Lady Spencer from Lady Sarah Spencer, daughter of George John, 2nd Earl Spencer, and afterwards wife of William Henry, 3rd Lord Lyttelton; 1797-1813. Excerpts are printed in Correspondence of Sarah Spencer, Lady Lyttelton, 1787-1870, ed. Maud Mary Wyndham, Baroness Leconfield (1812). Four volumes. Unbound. 235 x 185 mm. average size.
Scope & Content:: Lady Sarah Lyttelton, governess to children of Queen Victoria: Letters to her grandmother, Lady Spencer: 1787-1813.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1797-1813
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75606-75608
Title:: Althorp Papers. Vol. cccvi-cccviii. Correspondence of Lady Spencer with her daughter, Henrietta, wife of Frederick Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon, 3rd Earl of Bessborough; [1768?]-1814. The letters from Lady Bessborough, chiefly of the period 1809-1814, represent only a fraction of those she wrote to her mother, the remainder having been returned to her family after Lady Spencer's death in 1814. Those of Lady Spencer end in 1789. A few of them, and others after 1789, are printed in Lady Bessbo...
Scope & Content:: Henrietta Ponsonby, wife of Frederick, 3rd Earl of Bessborough: Letters to her mother, Lady Spencer: [1768?]-1814.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1768?]-1814
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75610-75667
Title:: Althorp Papers. Vols. cccx-ccclxvii. Correspondence of Lady Spencer with Caroline, wife of John Howe, and sister of Richard, 1st Earl Howe; 1759-1814. For the earliest and latest periods many of Lady Spencer's letters are missing; otherwise the correspondence is substantially complete on both sides. Most of Lady Spencer's letters were returned to her son after her death, but those written while she was travelling on the Continent were said to have been promised by Mrs Howe to Lady Spencer's ...
Scope & Content:: Caroline Howe, wife of John Howe; sister of William, 1st Earl Howe: Correspondence with Lady Spencer: 1759-1814.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1759-1814
Extent:: 58 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75668 A-F
Title:: Althorp Papers. Vols. ccclxviii A-F. Six notebooks, containing extracts by Caroline Howe from The Greek Anthology, with literal translations on the facing pages; 1806-1810, n.d. Partly Greek. Paper. 90 x 120 mm. average size.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1806-1810
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75669-75682
Title:: Althorp Papers. Vols. ccclxix-ccclxxxii. Letters to Lady Spencer from George Bussy Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey; 1759-1804. Including a few drafts of Lady Spencer's replies, a few letters from his wife, Elizabeth, and a few from Lord Jersey to Lord Spencer. Many of the letters, particularly those in 75670-75672, contain political gossip and accounts of proceedings in the House of Commons. This is presumably `the series of gossiping letters of old Lord Jersey's', which was said to have been d...
Scope & Content:: George Bussy Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey: Letters to Lady Spencer: 1759-1804.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1759-1804
Extent:: 14 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75683-75684
Title:: Althorp Papers. Vols. ccclxxxiii, ccclxxxiv. Letters to Lady Spencer from George Simon Harcourt, Viscount Nuneham, 2nd Earl Harcourt; 1756-1814. Including a few letters to Lady Spencer from his wife, Elizabeth, and two letters at the beginning to Lord Spencer. Some letters from the Spencers to Harcourt are printed in The Harcourt Papers, ed. Edward William Harcourt (Oxford, [1880-1905]), VIII, pp. 71-90. Two volumes. Unbound. 235 x 186 mm.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1756-1814
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75692-75693
Title:: Althorp Papers. Vols. cccxcii, cccxciii. Letters to Lady Spencer from Frances, wife of William Henry Fortescue, Earl of Clermont, 1770-1801. Including a few letters from Lord Clermont. Two volumes. Unbound. 235 x 190 mm. average size.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1770-1801
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75694-75695
Title:: Althorp Papers. Vols. cccxciv, cccxcv. Letters to Lady Spencer from Rachel Lloyd, housekeeper of Kensington Palace; 1773-1800. Followed by an extract from her will, concerning the bequest of her collection of historical papers to Georgiana, Countess Spencer and afterwards to her daughter-in-law, Lavinia, Countess Spencer; 1803. For these papers, see sections B and C above. Two volumes. Unbound. 239 x 186 mm. average size.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1773-1803
Extent:: 2 items

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